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A few months ago, I competed in my first 10k, and I enjoyed the experience so much that I decided I was capable of upping my game even further, and began toying with the idea of doing a half marathon. Unfortunately my brother took my toying seriously, and badgered me until I signed up for the Marlow Half Marathon, which it transpires is quite hilly (he was quite quiet about that).

I recently did some editing work on a couple of short sketches for together.com as part of their 1431 campaign. Obviously I didn't write them, but I think they're both pretty funny, and I'm pleased with the work I did. Check 'em out:

So I've finally got the film from the 48 Hour Film Project up onto youtube, check it out in the embed, or go watch it on youtube (where you can enjoy it in HD goodness) ...

This weekend saw the London 48 Hour Film Project. When the wonderful Beth (producer on Out of Office and Sandwich Rap) invited me to join her team as a writer and editor, I leapt at the chance. So Friday afternoon I moved into Beth's house, and prepared to meet a whole bunch of new people and work non stop with them for 48 hours. I was nervous, I was excited, I was wishing I'd managed to get hold of some hard drugs to keep me going ...

[for the really big news, feel free to scroll down, but if you have the time, why not enjoy the holiday with me?]

Several weeks back (and what feels like many moons ago), Claire and I did something pretty special. For the first time ever, we went on a summer holiday together. Generally, I'm more of a winter holiday kinda guy, and I had somehow managed to keep Claire on this path for 3.5 years. But sadly I gave in and we were jetting off (sorry planet) to Thailand.

As recently noted, I have finally got around to porting Claire over to my old iPhone (thanks to Dave for keeping me up to date by providing his hand-me-up). This would have been done ages ago, if it weren't for the fact that Claire's phone couldn't sync with her laptop, and I didn't relish manually typing in all her numbers.

Ever since I bought my iPhone, my approach to listening to music has been changing. When you have a vast collection of music, and a device with limited storage, you need to find a way of selecting music to go on that device. The approach I've taken is to start using the ratings mechanism - anything I've rated at 3 stars or over is automatically synced to the phone. I then have a random selection of music from the remainder (minus anything I have rated at 1 or 2 stars).

A few weeks back, I was having an idle chat with Matt, director of Out of Office, when he mentioned that he might be getting involved in producing a video for Dan Antopolski, a quite bonkers sounding music video. I read the shooting script, and thought two things. Firstly, 'That sounds brilliant', secondly 'Dear God it's going to be a lot of work'.

A typical Sunday morning will often see me sleep right through it, stagger blearily from my bed around lunchtime and weigh up the pros and cons of heading to the local cafe for a greasy spoon breakfast. So it was with some trepidation that I set my alarm for 7AM on Saturday night, knowing that I was planning on heading into the centre of London for my first 10k race. A night of disturbed sleep followed, my dreams filled with delayed buses, missed trains and various other time related concerns.

Unbelievable I know, but I am still alive - I've not been deliberately quiet on here, just been a tad on the busy side for the last few weeks. That and twitter seems to reduce my need to blog about what I've been up to. But it's been a while, and at least one person has been asking after me ... so here's a quick catch up, in a bit of a random order.